US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Automated transfer of containers for multimodal transportation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,684, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated transfer of containers for multimodal transportation" was invented by Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated transfer of containers for multimodal transportation includes obtaining first attribute data of a transportation vehicle, second attribute data of a container on a carrier vehicle, first position data of the transportation vehicle, and second position data of the carrier vehicle. The...